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Hospice News
JANUARY 29, 2024
of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Census Bureau.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Though regional variations exist, some palliative care delivery challenges are nearly universal for providers across the globe. Palliative care providers worldwide stand to benefit from sharing “lessons learned” to address common pain points. Increasing goals of care conversations among patients and families is another. “It
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. The state of caregiving Many of the barriers are financial. In 2010, the U.S.
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2024
In the United States, about 177,360 children have conditions that warrant palliative care on an annual basis, according to the 2015 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” published by the National Academies Press. But it goes both ways.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. We are delighted to welcome Melissa Aldridge to the GeriPal Podcast. Lauren: Hi.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.
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